Life Lately, Updates, Blogging Again?

Many years ago, as a young fresh-faced medical student, I started a blog to share my life and style. That singular action changed the course of my life in many ways and has been the bedrock and foundation for a lot of the things I have achieved thus far.

I gave that blog my all and it rewarded me. Oh, how it rewarded me. I was consistent, I was diligent, I wrote down the good, the bad, and the in-between, and it expanded my life. Expanded my reach. I not only just blogged, I now had products created off the back of the work I did on the blog. I now had a job creating content and writing for one of Nigeria’s foremost banks, a role my blog played a part in me getting. I was now not only a med student & blogger, but a Doctor, creative entrepreneur, and a content marketer. I was at a sweet spot, juggling all with as much dexterity as a clown juggles its balls.

Then Covid happened…

And somehow, I stopped showing up as consistently as I used to. Where I’d usually show up three times in a week, my presence dwindled. So much, that it’s been at least a good full year since I’ve graced the blog with my presence. I told myself it was just a little time off. After all, we were in a pandemic. Not just the one caused by COVID, but also a pandemic of people losing interest in reading blogs. I struggle to remember which pandemic came first, but somehow there was also a rapid decline in blogs. They were no longer all the rave, people’s attention span switched as quickly as a child when he sees a new toy.

However, that did not diminish my affections for my blog. Every year, without fail, I’d pay for its domain name and hosting. Regardless of my absence, I just couldn’t imagine not having that blog. It was the unthinkable. I was determined to hold on to it. I’d make grand plans about getting back on…